With Samsung showing off its Galaxy Tab tablet device at two big occasions of late - at last month' s IFA, Europe' s biggest annual tech expo, and recently at the Thailand Mobile Expo -, the tablet is being fervently compared with the market-leading Apple iPad and the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook.

The highlights of Microsoft’s just gone week included the launch of the company’s new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system; as well as a stronger alliance with social network Facebook over Bing search tools.

The Canadian cell phone carrier Bell Mobility has recently designated the Windows Phone 7-based LG Optimus Quantum as “coming soon.” The handset was among the nine Windows Phone 7 phones that Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer introduced as the first crop of handsets running the company’s new mobile operating system.

In an October 12 report, Jefferies & Co. analysts said that Research In Motion (RIM)’s recently-launched BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and a forthcoming BlackBerry Storm 3 smartphone – likely to be launched in November - are expected to boost shipment estimates for the company’s quarters ending in November and February to higher-than-anticipated levels.

Despite the fact that the recently-debuted Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) mobile operating system appears to a platform that can take on the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android, the one thing that the platform lacks, at least at present, is productivity apps.

HTC currently rejoices the world's fourth-ranked smartphone supplier position, iSuppli reports.

Nokia, the current number one has pushed its market share from 38.5 percent to 39.7 percent worldwide, selling 24.0 million phones in the second quarter, claims the report.

Windows Phone 7 handsets are currently a most sought after device and one among them comes in form of HTC 7.

Microsoft is seemingly playing a safe game opting for new Windows Phone 7 operating system, and offers hardware specs for all of the newly launched Windows Phone 7 handsets by HTC, LG and Samsung with almost similar technology.

According to several reports, Microsoft, which recently launched its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system at a grand event, will likely spend more than $400 million on its endeavors to put its new OS into the top-rung mobile handsets.

In an attempt to make its mark in the burgeoning smartphone market, Microsoft Monday unveiled the handsets that will run on its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, which clearly is a complete reboot from the company’s current mobile OS. 

In a recent post, Mozilla announced the release of the first beta of Firefox 4 mobile for Android and Maemo devices. The company said that the Beta 1 of the new version – which thus far went by the name Fennec – is ready and available for download.